Lindros, LeClair, Desjardins to enter Flyers Hall of Fame

By Times staff

Thursday, July 31, 2014

PHILADELPHIA — Eric Lindros and John LeClair, two-thirds of the Flyers’ Legion of Doom line, will be together one more time as they enter the team’s Hall of Fame.

The Flyers on Thursday announced they will induct Lindros, LeClair and Eric Desjardins into the team’s Hall of Fame during the 2014-15 season. Team President Paul Holmgren indicated Lindros and LeClair will be honored Nov. 20 prior to the team’s game against the Minnesota Wild, while Desjardins will join the group with a ceremony before the Feb. 19 game against the Buffalo Sabres.

“We are very pleased and excited to add Eric Desjardins, Eric Lindros and John LeClair to the Flyers Hall of Fame,” Holmgren said in a statement issued by the team. “Desjardins was a seven-time Barry Ashbee Trophy winner as the best Flyers defenseman and a keystone on the blueline that led the Flyers to great success over many years in Philadelphia. Lindros was a great Flyer during his years here. He won the Most Valuable Player for the 1994-95 season and helped the Flyers reach the Stanley Cup Final in 1997. John put together multiple 50-goal seasons. He was a well-respected, hard-nosed left-winger that just knew how to score goals. He had a great career as a Flyer.

“All three players are among the greatest in the history of the Flyers and are very deserving to join our Hall of Fame.”

From 1995 through 1997, Lindros and LeClair joined Mikael Renberg to form the Legion of Doom line, one of the most famous lines in Flyers history. Over those two seasons, the three players combined for 225 goals and 490 points. Desjardins recorded 396 points over 738 career games to rank second in franchise history among blueliners in goals, assists and points, behind only Mark Howe.

“I am honored to be inducted into the Flyers Hall of Fame, a hall full of diversity,” Lindros said. “What made this news even more special is to hear that I will be entering alongside John, who I had the good fortune of playing with for most of my time in Philly. I look forward to seeing old friends and to be back in the Wells Fargo Center alongside the Flyer Faithful.”